Return to Sullivans Island

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Book Overview

"Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater."
--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides

In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, "Frank brings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061988332
• ISBN13: 9780061988332
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Great read!!!!!

This book takes you into the Lowcountry in South Carolina. Any of Dorothea 's books are fabulous!!!! Queen Bee was excellent! Plantation got me started on these books. Think I have them all. Enjoy these folks!

Didn't receive what the listing said...

Rating the physical book received, not the story. The listing said Format: Paperback. What I actually received was a Mass Market Paperback. There is a difference. This has happened to me more than once on here lately.

Return to Sullivan’s Island

I ordered a paperback and they sent me a mass market. The print in mass market is too small I can’t read that. I am very disappointed that I did not get what I ordered.

A Book About Family & Memories

This is a continuation fo Sullivan's Island and it continues to follow the families younger generation of this extended southern family. We return to familiar places while the younger generation learns how and why things really do work in life. There's love gained, lost, and found. Realatives come together for one another in good times and bad. The older generation help the youngster ones grow while they learn imporatant life lessons. Through the haunted mirror and room we see that those who loved us in life continue to try and help us when they are no longer here. Real love is the one thing that never dies and is more precious than anyhting else. This is one of the lessons that the main character learns. Having said that it seems that like DBF is another author that is just writing to meet a deadline and put a book out. This could have been so much better, but it was still a good book, I would rate it 3.6, if I could. I wish that I had waited for the paperback or better yet, bought it used. I hope that the next one wll be as good as she good as her earlier ones.

Return to Sullivans Island

I just discovered Dorothy Benton Frank. First read Sullivans Island then went looking for more ...........Just finished third of hers Plantation OH my I start one of her books people around me lucky to get dinner can't lay it down.. Good family stories so real......She will be one I will read everything she has wrote then can hardly wait for the new ones. They never can write as fast as I read :)

Great Summer Read !!

I have to say I feel like I have been living in a cave or under a rock because I just have discovered Dot Frank's books in the past year...and boy have I enjoyed catching up on some great reading!! I live in the Low Country where she writes about and captures so perfectly!! I loved "Sullivan's Island" and "Return To Sullivan's Island" .... each make a great story by themselves but if you have the opportunity read them together and it really completes the picture! Dot brings such warmth , humor and detail to her stories... they are an absolute pleasure to read! It will have you wanting to book a trip to the Low Country!

A Great Sequel With a New Writing Style from DBF

I just finished reading Dorothea Benton Frank's (DBF) "Return to Sullivan's Island" and I have to admit it was one of those books I just couldn't put down. (I stayed up until 1:00 a.m. to finish reading it.) Unlike Frank's first book, "Sullivan's Island" which I slowly savored over several reading sessions, the sequel moves very quickly and covers a short time span. Devoted DBF fans will have to adapt to a new writing style. Frank used a third person approach that moves quickly and swept me into the story in the first chapter. There is much less dialog than in previous DBF books, and no visits to the past, which makes for a much faster read but sacrifices some of the Geechy and Gullah charm in past books. I was glad that I'd recently read "Sullivan's Island" because the background of the characters and their lives was fresh in my mind and gave this sequel a familiar and comfortable fit. I would strongly advise springing for a paperback copy of "Sullivan's Island" and reading it first if you want to fully immerse yourself in the low country magic of "Return to Sullivan's Island." "Sullivan's Island" combined with "Return to Sullivan's Island" invites you to secretly peek into the childhood and maturity of two generations of strong low country women and experience the magic of the island and the "living history" of a house. Although "Sullivan's Island" remains my favorite, I still give "Return to..." a hearty thumbs up and a score of five stars because I was swept away in another DBF story and lost track of time. Remember, I strongly recommend reading "Sullivan's Island" first for the best reading experience.

Once again dreaming of S. Carolina....

I really enjoyed Return to Sullivan's Island. There was a little tiny piece of me that wanted the story to be more about Susan and Maggie(because I loved them so much in Sullivan's Island) but this was Beth's story. She did make mistakes....I wanted to shake her and tell her to use her head more than once, but to me it was a coming of age story for her and mistakes are part of growing up. I love the way her relationship with her mother is portrayed. She loves her mother, but at times her mother makes her insane.(Is that called art imitating life?) I was also so glad to see so many characters from other books make cameo appearances. It felt like catching up with old friends. As always, DBF made me long for the beaches of South Carolina and miss my family. I may be transplanted to Texas, but the roots of the South run deep. DBF's writing makes the scenery of the South come alive for me to the point that I feel like I am there. I always read her books in one sitting because I can't put them down!! I am always so sad when the book is finished, and Return to Sullivan's Island was no exception. DBF is one of my most favored authors. I buy all of her books in hardback and read them more than once. I am so glad that I read Return to Sullivans Island and look forward to reading her next book.